A verb is a word to describe an action.
“I TALKED to her last night”
I love RUNNING in the morning”
I COOK every morning”
Answer:
A. The quantities of dissolved salts deposited by rivers in the Earth's oceans have not been unusually large during the past hundred years.
Explanation:
In the above given passage, the salty nature of the seas/ oceans are due to the <em>"dissolved salts" </em>carried into them by the rivers. Now, considering the level of salt in the oceans to be zero in the start, then the rivers' gradual deposits make up the salty nature. And this will take hundreds of years to make a whole ocean salty. So, if we think about the salt level of the current oceans and the process it takes, hypothetically, then we can safely assume that the quantities of dissolved salts deposited by the rivers are not that large during the past hundred years. For, if the deposits were in large quantities, the oceans' salt levels will have skyrocketed by now.
Thus, the correct assumption the argument depends on is option A.
Option B is irrelevant, option C too. If salts have leached into the oceans directly, then that would have also happened hundreds of years ago. Option D is also again irrelevant for the passage never mentioned the superiority of the method in estimating the salt levels. Option E is considerable but void in the part of the salts being used for biological activities.
B. Sequence
There is no specific time listed so its not chronological. No cause and effect relationship, no problem being solved and nothing being compared, therefore, B is the most reasonable answer.
A. Neither of the two books is good
Answer:
D. inform about the effect of large food companies on small farms.
Explanation:
This selection of the text has cause-and-effect text structure describing the effect (decrease in number of family-run farms) and then its cause i.e. establishment of large good companies such as Tyson. So option D is correct.
Options A and B are incorrect because the tone is neutral and unbiased.
Option C is incorrect because the selection is not entertaining but informative giving information about an effect and its cause.